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Overview
Module One—Mindful Action Planning: Finding your why and finding your way
• What is “time” anyway, and what does it mean to manage it?
• Doing what you care about: Values and valuing
• Overview of the MAP: All the ways we get in our own way
• Psychological flexibility = mindful action
• Getting curious: Noticing how you spend your time
Module Two—Personal Kanban: Mapping work/Navigating life
• Being “busy” vs being overwhelmed
• Doing what you care about: Values, goals, and actions
• Visualize your work
• Limit work-in-progress
• Choose how you spend your time
Module Three—Mindful Action Planning: Building psychological flexibility
• “Procrastination” and “busyness” as experiential avoidance
• Skills for psychological flexibility: noticing, accepting, being present & flexible self-ing
• Managing how you spend your time
Module Four—Curiosity, Self-Compassion and Kaizen: Problem-solving with MAP + PK to stay on your path
• Being curious: Noticing what gets done
• Subjective well-being as a metric
• Planning for change: Self-compassion and flexible rule-following
• The Joy of Missing Out: Accepting your limits and choosing your failures
• Time management as a cooperative act
• Kaizen: Continual improvement
Objectives
Experiential Objectives
1. Clarify values and craft (or refine) a mission statement(s) to guide your choices.
2. Use Personal Kanban to prioritize and choose valued actions.
3. Use the Mindful Action Plan to work with internal barriers (experiential avoidance) and build psychological flexibility.
4. Use the Mindful Action Plan performance management strategies and other time management tactics to improve organization and accomplish goals.
5. Use the Mindful Action Plan + Personal Kanban in a cycle of continuous (and curious and self-compassionate) review and improvement (Kaizen).
Technical/Educational Objectives
1. Define psychological flexibility from a behavior analytic perspective.
2. Define values & valuing from a behavior analytic perspective.
3. Conceptualize “choice” from a behavior analytic perspective.
4. Describe organization, performance, and time management strategies and tools (including Personal Kanban and the MAP) from the perspective of self-management, rule governance and stimulus control.
5. Describe “internal” barriers to accomplishing tasks (i.e. avoidance) from the perspective of psychological flexibility/inflexibility as complex languaging behavior.